Avant-Garde in the BlocEdited by Gabriela Switek. Text by Alexander Alberro, Sabine Breitwieser, Rachel Haidu. Polish avant-garde artists Henryk Stazewski (1894-1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925-2004) shared a studio-apartment that they transformed into a kind of live-in laboratory. Avant-Garde in the Bloc is an intimate journey into the worlds and works >>more

OstalgiaEdited by Jarrett Gregory, Sarah Valdez. Forward by Lisa Philips. Text by Massimiliano Gioni, Ekaterina Degot, Victor Misiano, Joanna Mytkowska, Bojana Pejic, Boris Groys. Interview by Judy Ditner. The word “ostalgie” emerged in Germany in the 1990s to describe a then-burgeoning nostalgia for the era prior to the collapse of the Communist Bloc and the breaking up of countries formerly united under Communist >>more

Dream Factory CommunismEssays by Boris Groys, Oksana Bulgakova, Katya Djogot, Hans Günter, Annette Michelson, Alexander Morosov and Martina Weinhart Introduction by Max Hollein. The all-encompassing mass culture of today is not an invention of the late 20th century. Contrary to what might be assumed, given the capitalist under- and over-tones of contemporary mass media, our visual culture has >>more

Gender CheckPreface by Edelbert Köbb, Rainer Fuchs, Agnieszka Morawinska. Text by Boris Marte, Christine Böhler, Bojana Pejic, et al. How were workers depicted on Socialist posters? How were male "heroes" portrayed in officially sanctioned art in Romania in the 1960s? How did female artists see themselves during the transition period after 1989? How do >>more